Hotel Indah Kota Bharu

salamalaikum! <br>bin in malaysia nach einer ziemlich langen fahrt angekommen. und bin nach kota bharu, mit meinem taxifahrer mohammad. er war super nett zu mir und hat mir den ganzen tag einfach alles dort gezeigt, von cow curry with rice and spice um 8 uhr morgens als fruehstueck bishinzu glitschigen nicht identifizierbaren suessigkeiten die ich am liebsten wieder ausspucken wollte.<br>alle sprechen malayu even in souththailand.also musste ich mich mit der sprache ...

It's half past seven it's time to get up...<br><br>Ah turn the alarm off its too early!! Carolyn heads off diving and I head for brekkie!! The milkshakes here are amazing!! Quick shot on the net and I just booked 3 flights...KL to Singapore, Singapore to Borneo and then on from KL to OZ!! Wow, I love the freedom that I have in my life and feel extremely privileged to be able to experience so many wonderful opportunities!!<br><br>Why OZ?! Well yeah I had no intention of ...

... very easy. It was all quite compact with a big dirty river on one edge (actual dirt, the water was soil brown). <br>The best bit was the night market where we found food stalls set up selling all kinds of wonderful local food. We opted for the local speciality Ayan Percik, chicken that had been marinated in coconut and chargrilled on a skewer with rice and more coconut and beansprouts through it - very nice!<br> <br ...

... info about Highway 4, we got nothing specific apart from the fact that he had camped at Banding because the resort wanted 500 RM for a room. We arrived in Jeli and began looking for a hotel. We were directed to a place that was like a huge deserted resort, just on the edge of town. It had a swimming pool (with water) a full gymnasium, a bandstand, several function rooms and loads of rooms in cottages dotted around the ...

... bus drops us at the border. The guys goes out and points towards the custom post and says "Malaysia"..We felt as if it was the free land or something!. <br><br>We had to queue to get our passports checked out of Thailand. By now, we were the only tourists. The custom guy pointed at by picture and said "beautiful" and called his colleague to show him. Shouldn't have too much trouble going through! Going to Malaysia was pretty easy. We ...

... City. It turns out that China had been coming to the Americas for around 2000 years before Columbus. It seems before 1434 and this book there were no ideas coming out of Italy and then after everyone who got his hands on it became a "Renaissance Man." College dropouts became experts in farming, irrigation, printing, military techniques, machinery, art, etc. and all overnight. It seems very plausible I'm sure. Basically, the next week or so we spent snorkeling ...

... is Muslim, they seem to accept other people and their religions. It can be strange at first to see all the women dressed with the head scarf. However, it is rare to see to stricty "just eyes" head dress. The climate is hot and humid but sometimes it cools off. We had very little rain while we were here. High season begins in June. Still trying to get used to asian squat toilets. Still saving my dumps for western toilets when I can find them.

... kind of things and loads of ants. We decided to get a 7 hour train north to kota baharu from the rainforest and for those prent on the zagreb to budapest train, this one nearly matched it for slowness and boredom. We didnt quite resort to making animal noises but we were close, it actually took 11 hours and seemed to spend most of the time not moving. That takes us to kota baharu which is a really strict muslim town where no alcohohol is allowed to be sold and we stick out like ...

... to the cultural centre to see a traditional performance. And like I mentioned in the last entry, we can't wait to eat some different food. Just short and sweet, we look forward to updating you from Thailand next. Hope work is going well, Brisbanians you have the show holiday today right? Enjoy! Nic and Matt

... the 15mins trek back thro the jungle to get to our resort - very scary. Pam and Mike arrived after 2 days and we moved over to the other side of the island to a more luxurious resort for 2 nights (Bubu Long Beach). Unfortunately it poured with rain for 2 whole days but we made the most of the nights out then headed back to Kota Bharu and off to Penang in search of some sunny weather.....